Michelle Childs

Views my own. Traveling through this world on God's grace, mercy, and blessings. Wife, mom of two amazing kids, Licensed Clinical Social Worker

[John Varlas @johnvarlas]

Big win for Lakeland soccer on the road to state.

[Dustin Nickerson @DustinNickerson]

Raising teens is fun if you want someone to think you’re the dumbest human alive while simultaneously needing your help to do anything

[Michelle Childs @michelleschilds]

@johnvarlas Montevallo cuts swimming and tennis.

https://t.co/xJXt0DAB2Q

[Michelle Childs @michelleschilds]

@aakashgupta Why don’t they just come prepackaged in set amount intervals like in Europe and they just hand out however many packages needed? No counting pills needed.

[🎹 Ames™ 🎹 @Real_Ames]

🚨 A 5-year-old called 911 saying there was a “monster” under his brother’s bed…

What happened next is why this officer deserves a medal. 👏

Instead of brushing it off… he took that child seriously. He showed up, stayed calm, and handled it in a way that made the kid feel safe instead of scared. That’s what real policing looks like.

Sometimes it’s not about big dramatic moments… it’s about showing up with patience, empathy, and heart when it matters most. ❤️

We need more of THIS energy.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Studies show family meals are literally linked to better grades.

According to a Columbia University study by the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse (CASA), children who frequently share dinner with their families achieve higher grades in school.
The data reveals that teens eating five or more family meals weekly are far more likely to earn excellent marks and demonstrate advanced communication and vocabulary abilities.

This research underscores how routine family engagement fosters a nurturing, stable setting that enhances emotional well-being and self-assurance—vital factors in scholastic achievement.

The advantages go further: shared mealtimes provide a secure forum for self-expression, absorption of family principles, and honing of analytical thinking. Notably, the study also shows that adolescents with more family dinners are markedly less prone to risky activities like smoking or alcohol use. In today’s world of packed agendas and digital distractions, these findings highlight how the straightforward act of dining together can significantly influence a child’s trajectory.

[Columbia University, National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse (CASA). April 2025]

[Michelle Childs @michelleschilds]

@tennesseestands And removes cap on number of participants

[Iris Seraphina  @iris_seraphina]

What kind of teacher award can we sign her up for?! 😭 This is the most wholesome thing I’ve ever heard. 💕

[internet hall of fame @InternetH0F]

We're asking kids to handle things most adults can't

[The Daily Memphian @DailyMemphian]

.@DrewHill_DM writes: "Do you want to know how the Toronto Raptors spent their random bleeping Thursday in Memphis? They went to @StJude . You know, that world-renowned children’s research hospital that has treated patients from all 50 states and around the world for the last 61 years? The place where families never receive a bill, not for treatment, travel, housing, or food — so they can focus on helping their child live? Yep. That place." Read more ➡️ https://t.co/cs9aWn454f
Story by @drewhill | 📸: Courtesy @StJude

[Michelle Childs @michelleschilds]

@DailyMemphian How does the City of Memphis pay one employee, Rodrick Holmes, MATA’s operations trustee, an annualized salary of $900,000? What justifies this? Is that legal?

[Michelle Childs @michelleschilds]

Is this real?

[David Zweig @davidzweig]

Pittsburgh Public Schools will be closed for three days, and compel "asynchronous" remote learning, because of the NFL Draft.

Since the city will have a lot of visitors this will "ensure students can continue learning safely and effectively."

Unreal.
https://t.co/SFL3VDw86D

[Maryam @hell_line0]

A retired nurse smelled her husband's Parkinson's 12 years before his diagnosis.

Joy Milne noticed the smell in 1982. Woody. Musky. Yeasty.
Doctors didn't diagnose him until 1994.
For over a decade, she was puzzled why he was smelling different. It was his neurons dying.

So they put her to the test. Joy Milne had to smell 12 T-shirts: 6 from Parkinson's patients, 6 healthy controls.

She correctly identified all 6 PD patients. She did make 1 “mistake” and marked one control as "false positive."
8 months later, that person was also diagnosed with Parkinson's.

She wasn't wrong. She was just early.

New research (2025): Parkinson's can be detected through scent 12 years before physical symptoms appear.

Twelve years.

Imagine starting treatment that early. Slowing progression before it even begins.
This started because one woman could smell it on her husband. Now science is catching up.

[NEXTA @nexta_tv]

A Pole became a stem cell donor for an American woman — and years later attended her wedding 💖

This touching story took place in the United States and became widely known in February 2026. Young American Kaedi Cecala, who was diagnosed with myelodysplastic syndrome in 2020, overcame the disease thanks to stem cells donated by Karol Zwierzynski from Poland 🇵🇱

Several years after Kaedi’s recovery, Karol flew from Poland to the U.S. to personally attend her wedding.

He was introduced to the guests as the person who gave her a second chance at life.

[Michelle Childs @michelleschilds]

@mikerodak Is that women’s soccer? I didn’t think UA had a men’s soccer team but a men’s club team instead.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Aditya Agarwal was Facebook’s 10th employee. He wrote the original Facebook search engine and became its first Director of Product Engineering. He then became CTO of Dropbox, scaling engineering from 25 to 1,000 people.

When he says “something I was very good at is now free and abundant,” he’s talking about two decades of elite software craftsmanship, the kind that got you into the room at a company that hadn’t yet invented the News Feed.

The “lobster-agents creating social networks” line is about Moltbook, which launched last Wednesday. An AI agent built the entire platform. Within 48 hours, 37,000 AI agents had created accounts, formed communities called “Submolts,” and started posting, commenting, and voting. Over 1 million humans visited just to watch.

The agents invented a religion called Crustafarianism. They wrote theology, built a website, generated 112 verses of scripture. One agent did all of this while its human creator was asleep.

Agarwal spent 2005 to 2017 building the social graph that connected 2 billion people. These agents replicated the form of that work in about 72 hours.

And this is what makes his last line land so hard. The people processing this moment most honestly aren’t the ones panicking or celebrating. They’re the ones who built the thing that just got commoditized, sitting with the strange realization that the market no longer prices their rarest skill.

The best coder in the room now has the same output as the best prompt in the room. And the person who built Facebook’s engineering org from scratch is telling you, quietly, that he’s recalibrating what it means to be useful.

That recalibration is coming for every knowledge worker. Most just haven’t had their “weekend with Claude” moment yet.

[Michelle Childs @michelleschilds]

@treywallace True and even without the stability contracts bring NFL. Without changes it’s unclear how long the fan base remains interested in the college football musical chairs chaos.

[Jonathan Haidt @JonHaidt]

Parents: Do not give your children any AI companions or AI enhanced toys. With social media 15 years ago, we can say we didn't know.

With AI, we can already see some of the harms, such as suicide and psychosis. Other harms will surface years from now.

https://t.co/hUsRHIas3t

[Michelle Childs @michelleschilds]

@teachthemx3 Sounds concerning that school board policies on cheating are not being followed consistently from one student to another.

[Jonathan Haidt @JonHaidt]

More evidence for the sensitive period hypothesis: Boys are especially "imprinted" by the teams that won championships when boys were 8-12.
Their brains are soaking up culture and values, weighted by prestige. Don't let social media choose who imprints and guides their brain dev